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Nolan M. Kennedy has practiced law on the Monterey
Peninsula since 1973, primarily in the areas of business
transactions, business and non-profit organizations, real estate
and health care law. He has written and lectured extensively in
legal areas and is co-author of the chapter on Options in Real
Estate Transactions, published by the California Continuing
Education of the Bar. Mr. Kennedy is active in the local
community. He is on the Board of Directors of the Monterey
County Property Owners Association, serving two terms as
president. He served 11 years on the board for the Carmel Bach
Festival, and is a past board member of the Monterey Peninsula
Chamber of Commerce and Volunteers in Action among other
community organizations. He is on the Board of Directors of the
Monterey County United Way, and is Chair of the Board for
2004-2005. Currently, he is a member of the State Bar of
California and the Monterey County Bar Association, for which he
served on the Executive Committee, and the American Health
Lawyers Association. Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Baylor
University in Texas and the University of California Hastings
College of Law. While in law school, Mr. Kennedy received the
Order of the Coif, and was a member and managing editor of the
Hastings Law Journal.
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Daniel F. Archer has practiced law on the Monterey Peninsula
since 1988. Mr. Archer's primary areas of practice cover
commercial transactions, including real estate acquisitions,
dispositions, development and leasing, construction, commercial
lending and joint ventures. Mr. Archer is a graduate of
California State University at Sacramento (B.S. 1985) and Santa
Clara University School of Law (J.D. 1988). While in law school,
Mr. Archer was an editor of the Santa Clara University Law
Review. In 1987-1988, Mr. Archer clerked for The Honorable Nat
Agliano, Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal,
Sixth District. Mr. Archer is a member and former board member
of the Rotary Club of Monterey, was a founding board member of
the Monterey Peninsula chapter of the American Heart
Association, and is a member of the State Bar of California, the
Monterey County Bar Association and the American Bar
Association.
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| Jon R. Giffen has practiced in
Monterey County since 1996 after moving from San Francisco, where he
specialized in defense litigation with the firm of Ropers, Majeski,
Kohn & Bentley. Mr. Giffen specializes in trial practice in the
fields of casualty, employment, automobile, products liability,
medical malpractice, business and real estate litigation. Mr. Giffen
has gained extensive trial experience in his thirteen years of
practice and currently serves on the court appointed arbitration
panels in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. Mr. Giffen is a graduate
of the University of California at Davis and Santa Clara University
Law School. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the
Monterey and Santa Clara Bar Associations, the Northern California
Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute and
the Rotary Club of Salinas. |
Jon R. Giffen |
Stan
L. Linker has a wealth of
experience as a trial lawyer, having tried over 150 cases throughout
California's Central Coast. Mr. Linker has litigated cases in both
state and federal court (including mass tort, multi-district
litigation). Mr. Linker's practice emphasizes insurance defense,
design professional law, construction defects, products liability,
public entity and business law. Mr. Linker is a current board member
of the Northern California Association of Defense Counsel (ADC), and
a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of
California and the Monterey County Bar Association (Treasurer, 1983;
Executive Committee, 1980). He is a former member of the Monterey
County Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1985-1986), California
Trial Lawyers Association (board member, Board of Directors,
1985-1986), Salinas United Way (Board of Directors) and Salinas Host
Lions Club (officer and board member). Mr. Linker is a graduate of
California State University, Fresno and University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Linker was a member
of the Moot Court Honors Board.
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| David W. Balch is a graduate of
Columbia University and the Georgetown University Law Center (magna
cum laude). While in law school, Mr. Balch received the Order of the
Coif, and he was a member and articles editor of the Georgetown Law
Journal. In 1995-96, Mr. Balch clerked for Judge Frank Magill of the
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Mr. Balch has
significant experience with large, complex commercial litigation,
having spent six years in big firm practice in New York City, first
with Cravath, Swaine and Moore, and more recently with O'Sullivan
LLP. A new resident of the Monterey-Salinas area, Mr. Balch is
currently a member of the State Bar of California, the State Bar
of New York
and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern
districts of New York.”
Mr. Balch is practicing in the area of litigation. |
David W. Balch |
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Cathleen M. Giovannini is a
graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and the
University of Notre Dame Law School (cum laude). While in law
school, Ms. Giovannini was a White Scholar and the Managing
Editor of the Journal of Law Ethics and Public Policy. Following
law school, Ms. Giovannini served as staff attorney for the
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit from 1992 to
1995. In 1995-96, Ms. Giovannini clerked for Judge Myron H.
Bright of the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Ms. Giovannini is a member of the State Bar of California
(2006), the State Bar of Missouri (1992) and the State Bar of
New York (2000), where she practiced previously as a legal
services attorney and in private practice. She is also a member
of the Monterey County Bar Association (2007).
A new resident of the Monterey-Salinas area, Ms. Giovannini
principally practices in the area of litigation. |
Cathie Giovannini |
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